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The Vibe Coding Paradox: When Understanding Became Optional

The crisis of understanding arrived without fanfare, but its confession was public. On February 6, 2025, Jean Hsu sat down to build a “Trader Joe’s Snack Box Builder” and made a startling admission: “I didn’t even read the code that was generated.” Within two hours, she had deployed a functional application. “I didn’t edit a single line of code by hand, unless you count my OpenAI API key I copy/pasted.” That same day, Andrej Karpathy—co-founder of OpenAI, former AI director at Tesla, a programmer whose expertise was beyond question—made his own confession that would redefine what it means to create software. His tweet about “vibe coding” described something unprecedented in the history of human craft: the ability to build functional, complex systems without comprehending how they work. ...

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What I've Been Building: My Deep Dive into Human-First Enterprise AI Transformation

When my role as SVP at Lark Health was eliminated on May 2nd, I found myself with something I hadn’t had in years: time to think deeply about what’s happening in our industry right now. And what I’ve been seeing in enterprise AI transformation frankly concerned me. Not because AI is dangerous—though it can be—but because so many organizations are making the same mistakes I’ve watched companies make during every major technology shift over the past two decades. I’ve led organizations through DevOps transformations, Agile adoptions, and cloud migrations. Beyond the corporate roles, I was deeply involved in the broader transformation community; running meetups, speaking at conferences, and actively sharing what I was learning and developing with others. I know what successful transformation looks like, and more importantly, I know what failure looks like. ...

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The Future of AI Agents: Deep Insights from NYC's Agentic AI Meetup

The Future of AI Agents: Deep Insights from NYC’s Agentic AI Meetup Hosted by: NYC AI from Scratch Mastermind Date: Thursday, May 29, 2025, 7:00-9:00 PM EST Speaker: Dr. Daniel Barulli Location: Online What happens when you give AI systems the ability to use tools, reason through complex problems, and autonomously pursue multi-step goals? Dr. Daniel Barulli took us on a fascinating journey through the rapidly evolving world of agentic AI, demonstrating how these systems are already transforming research, productivity, and our understanding of what artificial intelligence can accomplish. ...

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What I Learned About AGI at a NYC Meetup (And Why We're Not Ready)

I logged into a Google Meet expecting the usual tech meetup optimism. What I found instead was something more sobering—a virtual room full of AI researchers, engineers, and enthusiasts genuinely wrestling with whether we’re prepared for what’s coming next. The New York Artificial Intelligence Meetup Group hosted an in-depth virtual seminar on AGI—“AGI: What, When, How…and Are We Ready?"—and the conversations that emerged were both fascinating and unsettling. Here’s what stuck with me from that evening online. ...

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Paradigm Shifts and AGI: How Artificial General Intelligence Could Rewrite Our Economic Rules

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how quickly AI is advancing, and I keep coming back to the same question: Are we really prepared for what’s coming? Not just technically, but economically and socially? Last month, I spent some time diving into Thomas Kuhn’s concept of paradigm shifts—those moments when our fundamental understanding of something completely transforms. The more I read about AGI (Artificial General Intelligence), the more convinced I am that we’re standing at the edge of exactly this kind of transformation in economics. And honestly? It’s both fascinating and terrifying. ...